Many times I have been asked the following questions, “How did you know the fish would be there?” or “How did you know what they wanted?” My response is always, “You have to enter The Zone and think like the fish.” I’ve heard, “Your crazy” more than once, but if you stop and really think about my statement chances are, you might find that you have more than once applied that principal yourselves.
Lets say your out for a drive and realize your hungry, what do you do? I don’t know about you but I’ll go though a drive through and pick something to eat, preferably a Double Double with Grilled onions from In and Out. Or lets say your sitting in your living room in your Lazy Boy after a nice dinner watching TV and your significant other is dangling something like a chicken wing in front of your face. How long before you grab it and take it away from her?
Now try applying these scenarios to yourself if you were a fish. First lets approach the hunger one. Think like a fish, you’re swimming along, your stomach starts to rumble and you decide to stop and find a bite to eat. While you cant pull into a drive through you can find something almost as convenient. By instinct you would go to a place where the food was plentiful and easy to get.
You would look for some form of structure or current. Think about it, you as a fish seek refuge in structure, so do the smaller fish as well as crawfish. The more bait in a spot the easier it is for you to catch some. The same principals applies to current. When there is current it washes stuff, food, to a specific spot. This once again attracts smaller fish which in turn attracts bigger fish looking for a bite to eat.
Now I’ll approach the wife dangling something in front of your face. Remember, your still the fish here. Your sitting in your favorite brush pile, just pigged out on a big lunch of shad and crawfish, kicking back watching the world around you. All of the sudden something plops down into your living room. It proceeds to bounce up and down right in front of your face over and over again until it finally makes you mad enough that you have to react grabbing it to make it stop, or just to kill it or maybe because even though your full you will make room for that one more crawdad, remember the wife with the chicken wing? Either way you react to it.
Next time you go fishing try applying some of these tips and think like a fish. It just might produce more bites for you and hopefully produce more hookups as well.
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